Course Description

AI is poised to transform everyday life in unprecedented ways in the coming decade. How will it impact how you care for yourself and your family? By unpacking how AI can enhance diagnosis, optimize treatment, and strengthen preventive care, you will discover how data-driven solutions address pressing issues across individual, community, and worldwide contexts.

During the first six weeks, we will explore AI’s influence on personal health and well-being, such as disease prevention, navigating career choices, family dynamics, and caring for aging family members. In the next six weeks, we will explore AI’s influence on a broader scale, examining AI’s role in pandemics, data privacy, ethical dilemmas, entrepreneurship, and health economics. Students will analyze success stories such as AI-assisted telemedicine in underserved regions and failures that highlight the need for robust governance and ethical frameworks.

Through interactive lectures, tutorials, fieldwork, and group projects, students will have a solid understanding of AI’s benefits, constraints, and ethical dimensions when designing innovative healthcare solutions. Upon completion, students will be equipped to address diverse healthcare challenges, leveraging AI’s potential to improve lives, foster healthier communities, and shape the future of global healthcare.

Course Learning Outcomes

On completing the course, students will be able to:

1. Recognize different technologies used to solve the common problems in the primary healthcare.
2. Explain common problems in the healthcare across different life stages: 1) Understand how primary healthcare is put into practice; 2) Critique the level of intersectoral collaboration in healthcare.
3. Demonstrating and understanding of the AI core technologies and technical challenges.
4. Analyse the impacts of new technologies on primary healthcare.
5. Create a comprehensive framework of adapting new technologies in primary healthcare.

Offer Semester and Day of Teaching

First semester (Wed)